{"id":135792,"date":"2026-01-24T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135792\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:16:06","slug":"leander-installing-updated-water-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135792\/","title":{"rendered":"Leander installing updated water meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leandertx.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city of Leander<\/a> has begun installing updated water meters, Tony Bettis, the city&#8217;s capital improvement program manager, told Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>The project<\/p>\n<p>The updated meters will connect to an online portal that will allow customers to track their water usage in real time.<\/p>\n<p>In the new system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neptunetg.com\/products\/watermeters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neptune<\/a> brand meters will send data about water use to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neptunetg.com\/campaign-landing-pages\/my360\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neptune My360<\/a> portal, where customers can see it. Bettis said many customers in Leander already have Neptune water meters, so for these customers, crews will just be adding an antenna to connect the meter to the network. For customers with different existing meters, the city will replace them with Neptune meters.<\/p>\n<p>Bettis said the city hopes the meters and portal will encourage conservation and help to identify leaks.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline<\/p>\n<p>Installation of the new water meters began Jan. 19. Bettis said the city aims to install 150 meters per week.<\/p>\n<p>The city aims to make the Neptune My360 portal available to the public by April or May, and to have all updated water meters installed by the end of 2026, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDepending on how much growth we see between now and then, or other factors like the weather, it could get pushed back into January 2027,\u201d Bettis said. \u201cBut the goal is the end of December.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leandertx.gov\/941\/Advanced-Metering-Infrastructure-AMI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On its website<\/a>, the city says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veposolutions.com\/vepo-metering\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VEPO Metering<\/a> is contracted to install the meters. A meter technician will knock on a customer\u2019s door to let them know when they are installing the meter.<\/p>\n<p>Water will be shut off during installation. For residential meters, the city says this will be about 20-30 minutes. For larger meters, including businesses, it could take one to two hours.<\/p>\n<p>After installation, the city says customers should flush their lines by running an outside spigot and cold water in a bathtub for 10 minutes before using the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Leander has begun installing updated water meters, Tony Bettis, the city&#8217;s capital improvement program manager,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,57878,57873,57871,57872,57870,57877,57874,57876,57875],"class_list":["post-135792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-leander-utilities","tag-leander-utility-work","tag-leander-water","tag-leander-water-bill","tag-leander-water-meters","tag-leander-water-usage-portal","tag-vepo","tag-vepo-crews","tag-vepo-leander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}